Lisa,
Thank you for sharing your family with us. My father died when I was 12, and my mother’s suffered from depression and mental illness and now dementia, so I don’t know what it’s like to have that precious parent child relationship. What a blessing.

Lisa, I love that you recognize you won your dad’s respect not through all of your “If only I could…and did” achievements, but through studying and emulating the way he lives his life. A lovely tribute that warrants repetition.